Apparel-corset.



D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET.

APPLICATION I-ILED SEPT. 12, 1913.

Patented June 2, 1914.

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WITNESSES COLUMBIA I'LANDURAPH co.. WASHINGTON, D. 6.

D. KOPS. APPAREL CORSET,

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12, 1913.

WITNESSES DANIEL KOPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-GOIRSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 12, 1913.

Patented June 2, 1914.

Serial No. 789,406.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough at Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an 1m provement in Apparel-Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention refers to apparel corsets, and particularly to that style of corsets having depending skirts for closely fitting and holding the fleshy upper portions of the limbs in position.

One object of my present invention is to provide a corset of this style so constructed that the rear skirt portion may be readily turned up without disturbing the adjustment of the corset body proper, whenever this is necessary, as for example, to adjust the clothing worn beneath the corset.

Heretofore, corsets have been so constructed that the rear skirt portion is extensible, as for instance, as shown in Letters Patent No. 1030190, granted to me June 18, 1912, wherein the rear skirt portions were cut away and an elastic or yielding fabric insert placed in each rear skirt portion so as to extend from the rear lacing edge to a line beyond the cut-away portion of each skirt. In this construction, however, both ends of the elastic fabric inserts are secured to parts of the skirt or body of the corset, and due to the relative stiffness of the extended lacing edge of the corset, to which at one end the inserts are secured, the skirt cannot readily be turned up at the rear. Furthermore, in this form of corset, an adjustment of the skirt section cannot be effected without disturbing the adjustment of the body section, because the lacing in the skirt section is a direct continuation of the lacing in the body section, and a further object of my present invention is the provision of a corset wherein the skirt section is adjustable at the rear there of independently of the adjustment 01: the corset body at the rear by employing independent or separate laces, or other suitable means for effecting this adjustment.

In carrying out my present invention, 1 provide an apparel corset comprising corset body halves, each having a depending skirt which at the rear is cut away an appreciable distance lrom the lacing edge, and I employ elastic or yielding fabric straps, each secured along one edge of the skirt and corset body, and free at the opposite edge,

which is parallel to the lacing edge of the corset. These straps complete the continuity of the skirt at the rear and overlie portions of the skirts and the lower body sections of the corset body h alres between their respective lines of attachment and the lacing edges.

At their free edges, these straps are provided with a series of eyelets, certain of which are so placed as to register with other lacing eyelets at the rear portion of the lac-- ing edge of the corset body so that the lace employed is thread-ed through these regisl'cred eyelets, by which the construction, as will be more readily apparent from the following detailed description, permits the lower edge of the skirt to be extensible so that it may be turned up over the rear portion of the corset body, and this without disturbing the lacing adjustment at the rear of the corset.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a rear eleva' tion of a corset in which my present invention is embodied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged partial rear elevation illustrating my present invention. Fig. 3 is a cross section on line m m, Fig. 2, Fig. 4- is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing in full lines the position assumed by the lower edge of the skirt turned up at the rear and Fig. 5 is an enlarged crosssection similar to Fig. 3, but showing the use of the invention when separate laces are employed for connecting the free edges of the yielding inserts independently of the rear edges in the corset body.

Referring to the drawing, the apparel corset made in accordance with my present invention comprises corset body halves 10 and 11, provided, as is usual, with suitable stiltening devices. These corset body halves are also provided with depending skirts, 12 in d icating the skirt depending from the corset body half 10 and 13 the skirt depending from the c rset body hallt' 11. T he skirt 12,

the rear thereof, is cut away, as is indicated at 14, and similarly the skirt 13 is cut away on the line indicated at 15. Adjacent the rear edges of the corset body halves, these parts, as is also customary, are provided with a series of lacing eyelets, indicated respectively at 16 and 17.

In the lower rear portion oi? the corset body half 10, I employ a yielding insert 18, and similarly in the corset body half 11 is an insert 19. These inserts, as will be understood, may be made of suitable elastic or any similar yielding fabric. The insert 18 is secured at one edge only to the skirt 12 and the adjacent portion of the corset body half 10 along the line of sewing indicated at 20, which is an appreciable distance forward of the cut away portion of the skirt, and similarly the insert 19, along one edge only thereof, is connected to the skirt 13 to the corset body half 11, along the line of sewing indicated at 21, which is also an appreciable distance forward of the cut away portion of the skirt 13. At their opposite or adjacent edges, these inserts teri .inate in lines which are normally parallel with the lacing edges of the corset, and along their free edges, on one side thereof, these inserts are provided with reinforcing strips of fabric or other suitable material, indicated respectively at 22 and 23, and these reinforcing strips are secured to the inserts along the line of sewing indicated at 9/4: and 25 and merely form foundations for the lacing eyelets, as is best shown in Fig. 1, where the lower rear portions are illustrated as turned up and the under side thereof exposed.

Adjacent the free edge of the insert 18, and passing through the fabric thereof, as well as through its reinforcing strip 22, I provide a series of lacing eyelets 26 and similarly the insert 19 is provided with a series of lacing eyelets 27. The upper or inner eyelets in the inserts are so placed as to register with the lower or outer eyelets along the lacing edges of the corset, so that when the lace 28 is inserted, it passes through these registered eyelets in the lower portion of the corset body and the upper portion of the inserts. 11s is plainly indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawing, each of these inserts extends over the lower skirt portion adjacent the part thereof which is cut away, and also extends over the cut away portion of the skirt, and while in the drawing 1 have illustrated a lace as passing through two pairs of the registered eyelets, it will be understood that more or less of the eyelets may be made to register and the lace passed through the same. In this construction, as will now be apparent, the lower portions of the yielding inserts, that is to say, those portions thereof below the corset body, are freely extensible, enabling the wearer to extend and turn up the lower rear edge of the skirt without clifficulty. The upper portions of the inserts are substantially fixed, by means of the lace passing through the eyelets therein, as Well as through the eyelets on the lower portion of the corset body, so that the skirt at the rear may be upturned without disturbing the adjustment of the lacing at the lower portion of the corset body proper. Also by reference to Fig. 5, it Will be apparent that the laces 16 may be employed only for connecting the adjacent rear edges of the corset body half, while the separate or independent lace 29 may be employed for connecting the free adjacent edges of the yielding inserts 18 and 19. Furthermore, as will be apparent, other and equivalent means may be employed for connecting these free edges of the inserts without departing from the nature and spirit of my invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. An apparel corset comprising body halves, depending skirts cut-away at the rear, elastic fabric strips, the distant edges only of which are permanently secured to the respective skirts at the rear of the hip sections and extend a substantial distance below the said cut-away ,portions of the skirts and the adjacent edges of which are free, and means whereby the said adjacent edges of the elastic fabric strips are connected together. I

2. An apparel corset comprising body halves, depending skirts cut away at the rear, series of eyelets placed in the rear edges of the said body halves and depending skirts, elastic fabric strips, the distant edges only of which are permanently secured to the respective skirts at the rear of the hip sections and extend a substantial distance below the said cutaway portions of the skirts and the adjacent edges of which are free, series of eyelets placed along the ad acent free edges of the said elastic fabric strips, a lace passing through the said eyelets 1n the corset body halves to connect the same, and a separate lace passing through the eyelets n the adjacent edges of the said elastic fabric strips for connecting the same together.

Signed by me this 8th day of September, 1913.

DANIEL KOPS.

Witnesses BERTHA M. ALLEN, J. B. Ln BLANC.

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